We encourage you to scrap about yourself - to record your own story. We aren't very rule-oriented here - just keep in the spirit of the scrapbooking challenge!! Play for inspiration, you'll be amazed what you will learn about yourself ...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Lindy Gillespie (our design team member), Yvonne Yam and Georgia Heald were winners over at Bird is the Word for their Wonder challenge. Go on over to the challenge blog to see their work - then do yourself a favour and check out each of the winner`s blogs. These three ladies do awesome work!!

If you, or someone else who visits here, follows us, or plays along has been mentioned for their work - please let us know. Send links wherever possible!!!

Friday, January 27, 2012

Wow, had a note from Sheila today that she has nominated this blog for a Leibster award!! So happy she did so. Click on her name above to read what this award is. I'll be reciprocating and sending some love to some other blogs!! Sheila - come play along with us - we'd love to have you stop over and play with us regularly!!!

I have always been creative and over the years have done many crafts, i find inspiration from many daily events (catalogues, fashion) and like to think i inspire others to create beautiful work. I like to use the old with the new techniques when designing a layout, as the saying goes whats old is new again.

My style is ever evolving and use mainly white cardstock with lots of misting and masking and layers.

I'm thrilled to be designing at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge along with some very talented ladies and look forward to all the inspiration they can create.

Hi! I’m Chiqui Gutierrez from the tropical islands of the Philippines. I’m a Pediatrician by profession but a certified scrapaholic during my free time. I’ve been scrapping for the past 4 and half years and still very much addicted to this hobby. I’m married to Herbert, who fortunately loves to take photos. We have 2 daughters, aged 9 and 5 who are the subject of my layouts most of the time. We also love to travel so I do a lot of travel layouts too.

I’m not sure if I have a particular style but I love shabby chic layouts as well as clean and simple ones. Having two girls, my layouts tend to be girly. I love layering, hand cutting, & clustering of embellishments.

I’m so excited to be on the design team and I hope I’ll be able to inspire you as much as others have inspired me.

One afternoon when I was little, I was sitting on our back steps in the hot sun, basking. The whole summer stretched in front of me and I was enjoying the warmth of the sun and the lack of school. I remember idly trying to remember what I had done the morning before. My brain was blank. I tried to recall earlier that day and again, it was blank. Panic struck at how easily memories could slip from my brain and be gone forever.

I promised myself that I would try to remember each and every moment of every day not realizing that it was an impossible task. I did achieve remembering that one moment of panic however when the concept of time and its passage struck home.

Scrapbooking for me is like a book mark in my brain and soothes that panic. One glance at some journaling or a few photos and I’ve slipped back to that time and can enjoy the essence of the day. You can’t recall every moment of course, that is impossible and also dreary.

I tend to scrapbook photos from recent activities so my journaling is fresh but I am also enjoying jumping back in time and making pages from when I was younger. One hopes they make their pages for the next generation, but really I have no way of knowing who will be looking at them. Certainly the photos and the journaling are for my two kids, Lexi (age 11) and Luke (age 9) to enjoy, but the journey to making the page is all for me.

It’s the art of it all.

Blogging it takes it one step further and allows me to connect my art with the rest of the planet. Making pages and sharing them fulfills me in ways I never thought possible. I am overjoyed to start a new chapter in 2012 by being selected on my first design team with Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

I have just heard today that the ladies at Sketchy Thursdays are closing the blog. Pop on over there and wish them well, and thank them for their dedication - or if you have time to play along with the last sketch - even better. Sketch entries close at 10 tomorrow night - so hurry.

You have had a great run of this Diana, Heidi and Julie - good luck!!!

Monday, January 16, 2012

Well, it was a tough choice, as we had some awesome entries for our new design team spots. I am so happy to announce that these ladies have agreed to be on the team!! I am also so very happy that most of our old team has agreed to stay on for more fun!!!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

The scrapbooking challenge this time is to use the sketch and toscrap something that represents winter - children playing in snow, winter scene, whatever says winter to you! You have until the end of this month to play this and 1 January's challenge!!!

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